This Combo is Not What it Looks Like

About Balatro:
Balatro is a deck-building roguelite where you must play poker hands and earn chips to defeat enemy blinds. Enhance your deck of playing cards, buy Jokers to modify each hand you play, and discover new and wild synergies to win!
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[@isteinbergli3510]

The discount voucher should be an auto take. The money you save throughout a run pays you back tenfold the cost.

[@ThePryzedOne]

Yes and no. It’s lost me runs taking it at a bad time lol 😝

[@charlespanache7047]

It's definitely an investment but imo by not taking it you're spending so much more over the course of the entire run just to not spend 10$ upfront. If I have faith i can make it a high ante I go voucher

[@KingKobra98]

Not if you don’t have the money to not reroll in the first place

[@isteinbergli3510]

@pandemic3332 There are some highly specific instances where I wouldn't take it, but that's super rare. Even if you can't afford it at the first shop, you can buy it later in the ante.

[@certifieddumbass-ee4qg]

unless you're doing a ceremonial dagger run lol

[@carterbrassard3313]

It goes even crazier when you toss the card that makes all cards behave like face cards

[@ThePryzedOne]

Whenever I get a face card setup I never fucking get that joker 😂 but when I’m running other builds I’ll see it three or four times

[@TheTrueCopyUniverse]

Ah yeah, Pareidolia! It can be quite the combo!

[@jinnans_gd]

pareidolia my beloved

[@RancorousSea]

I got that, the 1-2 played facecards give 2 dollars and the enhanced probability card.. the turn before I faced an all face cards debuffed boss that I didn't see and I had to immediately sell it.. fucking game

[@jusatin]

Just like he said, multiple times..

[@Drewski1234]

hearing meedus instead of mydhus is like nails on a chalkboard for me and idk why

[@davejones8462]

Same 😂

[@brycemccarty6119]

Was looking in the comments to see if anyone else noticed. It was killing me😂

[@ramrodtv]

Yup, can't stand it

[@ChriSto2]

well, "meedus" is how it´s pronounced. "mydhus" is the english pronounciation which you are used to, but actually it´s "wrong". Μίδας is original greek

[@FerousFolly]

​@@ChriSto2 but can you defend "arkayna" instead of "arkahna"

[@Benw8888]

It'd be good to rotate the vampire order to make their mults as equal as possible for optimal scoring

[@ste1l1]

YES!

[@austinwalden8295]

Math works out to be the same either way pretty sure

[@ste1l1]

@@austinwalden8295 What's higher; 3 x 4 x 5 or 4 x 4 x 4? (Spoiler: They're not equal)

[@MsCounterMax]

@@austinwalden8295No, lmao

[@That-_-Guy]

@@austinwalden8295someone didn’t pass their math class

[@gnusnotutopia]

it looks like a card can only get de-enhanced once per hand so if you played a gold card, it would get sucked by the first vampire, be re-enhanced, then not get touched by the second vampire and if you played a normal card, it would be enhanced then get sucked by the second vampire

[@phantom-ri2tg]

I would not say it is enhance in general as as the vampire drain and gold both ran. A plausible explanation though would be every enhance effect is tracked and limited to one activation.

[@kristopherhayes327]

Joker that turns one of your cards into a limb of exodia, play 5 of a kind with exodia you win the round

[@xp3ngu1n]

To make it fair, maybe once the cards of exodia are used they break and you have to get them again

[@ethanodell8044]

The entire game

[@adissentingopinion848]

​@@ethanodell8044For the entire game, you would have to first play all fingers and toes of exodia to craft the arms and legs. 20 appendages+1 head cards in your deck get new seals that have to be played together to merge them. THEN you can play exodia. Destroying any of them have consequences...

[@ThePryzedOne]

@@xp3ngu1n or do de buff it you get random pieces and can get doubles

[@JimChicken]

Just make it 5 jokers that are pieces of exodia and if you get them all you can win the game. Another idea is to have a joker that allows exodia pieces to show up in card packs and you have to add and then play all 5

[@first-namelast-name]

seeing a skoot video with "no views" makes you feel so powerful

[@charlespanache7047]

Somebody playing balatro with zero views? Literally me

[@altrivotzck6565]

The Dio combo. I've been trying to get this one since I thought of it, along with like Marble Joker & Hologram, but I just haven't had the luck.

[@LiamGuppy]

im addicted to balatro, i didnt get my first win for 11 hours now i have won 6 runs, i also love how endless is actually challenging in this game rather than becoming so easy it gets boring like in other roguelikes

[@seanfinn10]

I just got Balatro yesterday, and in my first run, I got this combo in ante 1 from a Mega Buffoon pack... Got the multiplier up to 27x. Needless to say, haven't had such an easy run since 😂

[@livelyy.]

You wouldn't happen to have the seed?

[@amiano59e4]

thats what i like to call "first run luck"

[@1dingerr]

I usually run face card decks unless I find the hack joker, there's so many synergies if you run face cards that'll easily get you to ante 10

[@safeuse3675]

Actually multiple vampires worth it. Like you get 15x for example, if you split it into 3 vampires it becomea 5*5*5=125x

[@Yenrei]

Blueprint/Brainstorm tho

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

​@@Yenrei That's the dream.

[@darkener3210]

Each card can only be vamped once per hand played 26:21 Youll notice that the first vamp it took out the already gold cards Then midas hit made all of them gold But the next vamp only took out cards that didnt get vamped before In total being only 5 vamp level ups, which would have been better off all going to the same vamp instead of 2 separate ones So as funny as this is, its not at all better then just 1 vamp and 1 mask Infact its significantly worse

[@HaloInverse]

Starting with two vampires both at x2.0, playing 5 face cards, +(x0.2) per gold card consumed: All golds onto one vampire: (x3.0) x (x2.0) = (x6.0) 3 golds to one, 2 to the other: (x2.6) x (x2.4) = (x6.24) Splitting the (added) multipliers as evenly as possible actually gives the highest total multiplier. Intuitively: Squares contain more area than skinny rectangles of the same perimeter. ...until/unless you hit Blueprint or Brainstorm.

[@discospyder40]

Scootie has never heard Midas pronounced before. My-dus

[@kulatoid]

I actually got this combo on one of my runs with paredolia and it went crazy

[@timm8o475]

The cards seem to be set to only allow one enhancement and "de-hancement" when played. It's probably there to avoid something like this going infinite and crashing thr game, I'd guess

[@ltpomey]

It kills me that you didn't check that your multiplier was increasing for all Vampires and didn't think to mess around with Gold at the end. I ran this build and you want the gold joker at the end trust me.

[@ignomint]

cool vid ill watch it after AutumnEmpress's nap too :3

[@Skoottie]

i wonder if theyre still napping

[@heather19515]

you should do this but regularly shuffle the order of the vamps, so the total mult grows exponentially.

[@ALynn127]

Joker's Bizarre Adventure

[@verylargebigtoe407]

"do we try to make red card work, it seems horrible" It's also me when I make red card work

[@scrubbybubkinz5264]

got the combo of midas and vamp along with the one that makes all cards count as face and it was crazy

[@MBoy2000_]

red card is actually pretty sweet, its not good endless cause no multiplication effect but early on its so much mult, just save up to interest cap before investing into it too much so you can afford spending the money on it. Its genuinely not as bad as you think, can carry you to an easy ante 8 win with any other multiplicative effect. Also you can take 1 from a mega pack and still skip for the +3 mult.

[@Coffeewings334]

Seems like a lot of work to get to +15 mult or whatever when so many jokers either give you comparable mult that way easier or way more mult for the same amount of work. I can’t see it working out outside maybe the earliest stakes

[@MBoy2000_]

It's definitely a lot of work to start it but once it's going, it's goes pretty good, and with the 50% discount the packs are basically free. I feel it's best in the challenges and is a pretty easy carry in a lot of them, especially the stone cards one. Again, it's not amazing (common moment) but it's not unusable. I'll take it when I'm looking for cards in packs or planets since you usually want something specific there and it's nice to benefit it you're going to be possibly skipping them anyways. +3 mult is a lot better than nothing. Not really something worth building your run around, just a nice supplement to hold you over

[@ThePryzedOne]

2:36 If it’s a mega pack you can pick one and skip the other and it still works

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

For red card??

[@ThePryzedOne]

@@ShuckleShellAnemia yeah for red card.

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

@@ThePryzedOne wish I knew this earlier

[@ThePryzedOne]

@@ShuckleShellAnemia I was on a round I knew I was losing so I said screw it and tried and it worked. Still lost but at least learned something lol

[@Leafair2017]

What if you had a negative Pareidolia? Still gives you the space for 4 vampires and the gold face card, plus with EVERY CARD played being considered a face card.

[@MartinRose-d2r]

Skoottie:"We're gonna hit mask." Game:"We have mask at home."

[@TheDilla]

man's out here getting like x3 x 5 x 7 for a total of over x100 mult also scootie: "Man this sucks!"

[@martinescobar3908]

12:33 Skootie got the "who's getting the best head" face

[@kingchuckfinley]

I got my first ace in disc golf today! I don’t have social media so I’m just telling my favorite KZbinrs lol. What is my life? Really great day for this guy though.

[@LettuceGod1]

That’s awesome! I’ve been disc golfing for a few years now and still haven’t gotten an ace! Great work!

[@raelsadd]

yo its basically the start i had (i dunno if the "all cards are face cards card*" would be better) * pareidolia

[@socraytes]

I finally beat the gold stakes 2 days ago using the face card +5, Midas, and the vampire joker. I had this combo once before but had the blue joker (copies the joker on the right) and got to the 12th round.

[@thegamrpersonguy6077]

The thing about this is that each card can only be consumed by Vampire once in a hand. I'm not sure why this is done (some form of balancing? holdover from older versions where it worked differently?) but it's definitely why this turns out so jank. Unless I'm wrong there doesn't seem to be anything stopping you from having multiple Masks, though it wouldn't really help. With multiple Vampires it's actually ideal that your hand consists of a mixture of gold and normal cards so you can split the mult gain between them. Interestingly, despite both Jokers claiming they take effect when the cards are played, this is not true; they take effect when the *hand* is played, and don't care at all whether the card itself was. This means you can gold/drain cards not in the played portion of the hand (23:35), but retriggers don't synergize at all, and of course Vamp gets to steal the enhancement before it gets to trigger. Overall, I'd say it's not just the "combo" that doesn't work like how you'd expect, but that both of the Jokers don't either.

[@JustArry]

0:37 ive been confused about that too. It's definitely worded weird. Makes it seem like you lose a hand every round and eventually you'll have 0. But it's just once. I guess because things in the game can make you lose hands for just one round ETC. Still it's a strange choice of words

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

its always crazy to think that there is someone better than tyler, and I mean many orders of magnitude better

[@omegahaxors9-11]

Tyler on his own is strong, but when he stands alongside his editors they can move mountains.

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

@@omegahaxors9-11 as said by tyler from the hit channel aliensrock: "I am the CEO of a multinational corporation"

[@nathanreinhardt6924]

You knew exactly what you were doing with that thumbnail 😂

[@EDoyl]

You've got to feast the hungriest vampire

[@omegahaxors9-11]

The fact that brainstorm is incompatible with the gold mask tells me that the game probably can't handle two gold masks and makes it so they won't show up even when you have showman. It does seem coded in a way that would make having two not do anything.

[@Masterdarkf]

gold dupe in generall is not possible, even with blueprint for example. seems kinda anti money print, but well there a other busted ways to do so

[@wolfer5486]

Brainstorm is incompatible with economy hardscacross the board for balance reasons

[@phantom-ri2tg]

Have not finished the video. But the vampire only refused to go off if the card had been drained by a vampire before. Which sounds like something difficult to code by accident. Regardless when I saw that I knew the build sort of failed (you could just split the power ups between vampires as split between two would power up exponentially rather than linearly). Someone said they were looping but that is wrong as it was only drained once.

[@hachnslay]

things i disagree with - ignoring the standard pack (a purple seal has a good chance of decreasing the number of cards in your deck) 8:19 - using the fool for money instead of turning six cards into hearts after upgrading flush several times in a row.

[@barriath8841]

the second vamp was like i aint eating scraps xD

[@jusatin]

What's up with the game audio being so damn low? Can't hear a thing.

[@Katie-hj5eb]

2 vampires is probably still good because having 2 time 3 multipliers is 9 while feeding all of them to one vampire would just be 3 + 3 so 6.

[@OliviaSNava]

I bet that the reason you didn’t get double Midas mask was the same reason it was incompatible with brainstorm. The devs didn’t want to implement multiple Midas mask synergy, and so you can only have one in a game.

[@Bluhbear]

The ordering of the ticket doesn't really matter in this case, because it say "when scored"

[@ZOMBYZILLA42]

Had this run yesterday, I didn’t know it was a combo until it happened got up to 18x with blueprint also

[@xenalin1]

19:39 "it's coded to remove the cards you play and give you new cards" if that's true, wouldn't it count towards the "for each card added to deck" bonus?

[@coolblockWILL]

The 4 vamps and 1 mask looks like the JoJo Bizarre Adventure part 1

[@ell.is_eli]

This combo can be even better with the card that counts all cards as face cards, cus then gold mask turns every card you play into a gold card

[@kelzakdub]

Idk if this thumbnail was supposed to reference the meme of the small woman on the couch surrounded by large men, but if it was, A1 reference 😂

[@sehtweadley1013]

Missed opportunity for devs. Could have had a voucher that's ability replenishes cards when you buy one in shop so you can keep buying

[@RoderickEtheria]

Midas Mask should not stack. A single vampire clears all the enhancements on cards, not allowing other vampires to remove those enhancements, so it works alone only. Going back and forth with midas mask+vampire+midas mask+vampire+.... might work. Otherwise, it only makes sense to have one of each.

[@violetwarlord4713]

i had a run 2 dice jokers and the 1 in 4 upgrade hand joker and the dice made it 4/4 and it was nuts. Level 36 pair by ante 8

[@gdmatskrab9388]

Yooo I was wondering when you're gonna cover this. I've got midas and vampire early and was able to stack it up to 60x mult xD

[@ArashiSlime]

I got a run similar to this, but it was with quad dna vampire on a gold card, it went crazy had like 110 cards at ante 8 lmao

[@rhys11707]

You wanna be scalling the vampires evenly in this type of situation. Toward the end there were 2 over 10x and one at 4x. It would be better to have 3 at 8x for example since 8x8x8 > 4x10x10

[@phantom-ri2tg]

I really think you should have tried more fishing for face cards after you got midas. Could have got a lot more gold cards in your deck.

[@trettstir5375]

I beliave you should have moved around the vampires so their value stay relatively the same. Because the higher the number the less adding to it does.

[@Makowako_]

You need to feed your middle vampire more he’s not getting any, vampires eat cards that haven’t already been eaten

[@MrTurish]

Hi Skootie I like your content, new viewer here, I was wondering if you could turn on colorblind mode? I'm partially deaf and it would help follow

[@119j8]

very first run of balatro post-demo was gold + vampire got it up to x31 and haven't gotten the combo since :')

[@chaboof120]

I audibly cringed when he passed up the photograph after sock and buskin

[@AosorarisuUnedited]

Wait, something there is super broken. That one Jack was Foil... Got Vampired, Midas'd, ignored by Vampire and was somehow Foil again by the end. How does that work?

[@minileafrat]

Foil is an Edition, not an Enhancement. Vampire's will only eat card Enhancements (Wild, Mult, Gold, Stone, Steel + Bonus). Editions (Foil, Holographic + Polychrome) and the Seals do not count for Vampire (Or anything else that specifies "Enhanced Cards", like the Spectrals that add Enhanced Cards to deck, or the Joker that gives you a x3 mult if you have 16 Enhanced Cards in Deck)

[@AosorarisuUnedited]

@@minileafratAh, yea I figured that out after several more runs. Thanks for pointing it out in case someone else was wondering!

[@Robinator1103]

Now where have I seen vampires growing stronger from a mask before? It's a bit bizarre.

[@pook49]

This Combo is Exactly What it Looks Like

[@hellogood7239]

11:41 bro just discards a 4 of a kind

[@guynamedkeith6548]

Is there a seed for this I like to try these unique runs

[@robertedwards8290]

Genuine question, if face cards are worth 10 chips, and Pareidolia makes all cards considered face cards, why doesn’t that value of each card (including aces) become 10 chips?

[@Ragnell123]

I was watching someone play for the first time today and they got this combo, lol

[@Freegrem]

what about the all cards are face cards joker

[@Benw8888]

The vampires not double triggering is such a scam, lol

[@EMETRL]

So I guess the game is hardcoded to prevent a card from triggering vampire more than once per hand regardless of what else is going on during scoring. Pretty much every "theory" chat came up with is wrong. It has nothing to do with how midas mask is coded because cards that started off unenhanced were able to be eaten by the vampire that was placed after the mask. However, cards that were eaten by vampire and then refreshed by mask were not eaten by the second vampire. The only explanation here is that cards can't trigger vampires more than once. It's a shame because this combo really ought to work. I was thinking that maybe the game was designed this way to prevent a crash or softlock caused by infinite loops, but it probably is just an accidental side effect of trying to make a game with so many different mechanics happening at once.

[@FenderTele71]

I had the vampire + golden mask combo with the joker that makes everything a face card and every hand I played turned to gold and then got cleaned by the vampire. The vampire was at >50x by the end of the run.

[@lukesanford9026]

Wait am I missing something Why is he not putting Baron to the far right to get x1.5mult after +10 mult

[@minileafrat]

Baron triggers at the same time as other "Card in Hand" effects (Like Steel cards) and before the other Jokers he had would, no matter where you put it in the order.

[@pideperdonus2]

FEED THE VAMPIRE!

[@CoolHandLuke196]

bro said "meedis" lmao

[@Goobalert]

The fact there isnt a top comment talking about the thumbnail being very close to a certain vibe of picture with 5 dudes standing behind a white girl on a couch LMAO

[@jesseclinton7779]

Can someone in the comments explain what exactly showman does? “Joker, Tarot, Planet, and Spectral cards may appear multiple times.” Is this what is enabling the multiple vampires, because otherwise they are taken out of the joker card pool?

[@ste1l1]

Correct. You won't even see a tarot card you own in the packs without it.

[@jesseclinton7779]

@@ste1l1 thank you!

[@thedeck-buildingdemon8293]

16:17 someone should tell him about the one good thing about the black deck

[@SamuraiFoochs]

Honestly the start of this video makes me feel better because even though Skoottie is clearly GOATed at this game, the number of runs I have that die on like, the first or second round was starting to make me feel self-conscious and it makes me feel better. LMAO.

[@rotkudnok]

2:12 why skip poly joker? Edit: 9:35 why skip NEGA joker?? I'm so lost rn...

[@Twiiistt]

What is the music used in the intro please? I feel i've heard it somewhere else but i don't remember at all

[@1objection]

Took me forever to find it but it is the check Mii out channel music.

[@Twiiistt]

@@1objection You are a legend! Thank you so much!

[@calebmcnevin]

My (uninformed) theory is maybe vampire can only suck each card one time

[@AbhorrentRed]

BRO SAID MEEDUS MASK LMAO

[@Bobaphatt]

Holding r to reset is big tech.

[@DaKing08]

imagine this with pareidolia

[@nautilusgx]

it's insane i did a run earlier and it was so good

[@funnyaccountname5763]

Every skipped arcana pack turned me more and more Type A.

[@pro_crafter_12]

23:21 jojo reference

[@Kingcob7]

it is so hard to watch these at 2x speed I have no idea what's going on :D

[@frederf3227]

Anyone else flinch every time mai·duhs is pronounced mee-dus?

[@Tehbestestevasss]

18:02 Everything before this point is filler. Skip right to the run.

[@theneekofficial8829]

thank you

[@Skoottie]

woops, Ill cut that section out now, forgot to mark the end of that loss, my b, should be fixed in a bit

[@Tehbestestevasss]

You know what? Fair enough. I thought maybe it had been a stylistic reason as some people like extra gameplay. I appreciate the candidness though. Thank you!@@Skoottie

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

Why do you pronounce Midas like meedus?

[@sinfrax]

I managed a run like this and got my vampire up to x35.8 :D

[@midnight_lol]

Just dont add the ceremonial dagger or itll be a jojo reference

[@krazycam1029]

I can’t get over the way he mispronounces “Midas” where does he even get the “e” sound from 💀

[@screwlose]

You missed a trick not calling this the JoJo Deck i think.

[@MajorArchitect-0]

Could have had more money if he used his discards to hold more gold cards at end of round. So dumb, I've done the same though, lol

[@lukelindamood378]

This is the DIO build

[@SilentDragon363]

So I got clickbaited, and the combo does nothing 😑

[@neosharkey7401]

It does work its just limited to 1 vampire and mask.

[@1TieDye1]

50:07 would retriggering face cards do anything?

[@jhonea6535]

"On play" effects man...

[@ULuvsTink]

You’re telling me this isn’t a Jojo reference?

[@deonbeaumont8033]

Localthunk make it work right